Scrum is gaining an ever-increasing popularity around the world. Many leading technology companies worldwide have recognized the advantages of Scrum over the traditional approaches. There is an immense boost of interest in the Agile methodologies as demonstrated in the Certified ScrumMaster training programme conducted by Sanjiv Augustine, a world renowned Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer.

The Certified ScrumMaster course comprised of the essential concepts and tools of Scrum, and highlighted the differences between Agile and traditional ‘waterfall' methodologies. It also educated partakers on how to develop a roadmap for adopting Agile in an organization. The participants learnt the techniques to lead development teams towards Agile operations by managing product backlogs, planning releases and sprints, tracking and reporting progress, and conducting retrospectives. All attendees who successfully completed their training were granted one-year membership in the SCRUM Alliance and registered as a Certified ScrumMaster with Scrum Alliance.

Speaking on the successful completion of the programme, Mr. Anurag Shrivastava, Managing Director, Xebia India said, ‘We are delighted to offer this training course, which is a focused approach towards Agile planning and proposes recommendations on implementation of Scrum methodology. The course enables managers and software developers to reach out more broadly to clients as they seek to adopt the Scrum method of Agile project management'.

This is a beneficial and informative course for Product and Line Managers, Project Managers, Software Developers, Module Leads and Managers who are planning to use Scrum for managing software development projects.

About Sanjiv Augustine

Sanjiv Augustine is the President of LitheSpeed and an industry-leading agile and lean expert. He is a co-founder and board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). He is also the author of several publications and the book Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005); and the founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management discussion group.

About Anurag Shrivastava

Anurag Shrivastava is a Senior Technology Executive, with a long international experience, who is passionate about leading the teams engaged in innovation and creative work, in Information Technology. He is a firm believer in Lean and Agile principles. Presently Anurag is the Managing Director of Xebia in India. He has started this company and grown it to a team of highly productive and quality focused software professionals. He has driven several technology initiatives at the company, community and academia level.

About Xebia

Xebia is an Agile Software Development & Consulting company head-quartered in The Netherlands with strong presence in India and France. Xebia group has more than 200 employees. Xebia adopted Agile software development methodology in 2001, soon after Agile manifesto was declared. Thus is an early adopter in the software services industry. Xebia is the pioneer of Distributed Agile Software Development. Xebia works in collaboration with agile thought leaders of the world like Jeff Sutherland (Co-creator of scrum), Marry Poppendick and Pete Deemer to envisage mature practices in our scrum projects.

Till now Xebia has trained more than 1000 ScrumMasters and has helped many large and mid-sized software product companies like Dutch Railways, Ericsson, Saba and OSI among many others to adopt Agile at various stages in India and Europe.